For each of the past five years I have edited a year’s best anthology of one kind or another. One of the jobs that has fallen to me, as part of assembling a selection of the best stories of the year, is to find those stories. They appear in the darndest places, but one of the more common places is in original anthologies. A reader recently highlighted to me that some of those original anthologies can be very hard to find, which made me think it might be worth adding a publicly accessible list of all of the original anthologies that I’ve been able to find. And that’s why this page exists. Here I’ll be listing original science fiction, fantasy, horror and related anthologies that will be published between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2008. I’ll do everything I can to be as inclusive and all-encompassing as possible.
Publishers/editors: If you have an original anthology scheduled, please drop me an email. I don’t need a lot of information. Just a title, editor, and publication date. I’m happy to link to what information you have, and will provide links to amazon.com etc.
| Title | Editor(s) | Pub. Date | Publisher |
| Seeds of Change | John Joseph Adams | August | Prime |
| What You Can’t See | Anonymous | January | |
| Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness | Mike Allen | July | Norilana |
| Fast Forward 2 | Lou Anders | October | Pyr |
| Sideways in Crime | Lou Anders | June | Solaris |
| Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy | Steve Berman | February | Mirrorstone |
| A Field Guide to Surreal Botany | Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg | mid 08 | Two Cranes Press |
| We Think, Therefore We Are | Peter Crowther | tbc | DAW Books |
| Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction | Jack Dann | June | HarperCollins Australia |
| The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy | Ellen Datlow | April | Del Rey |
| Tesseracts Eleven | Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips | Late 07 | Edge |
| Galactic Empires | Gardner Dozois | January | SF Book Club |
| My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon | P.N. Elrod | January | St Martin’s Griffin |
| The Grantville Gazette IV | Eric Flint | June | Baen |
| Ring of Fire II | Eric Flint | January | Baen |
| The Dragon Done It | Eric Flint & Mike Resnick | March | Baen |
| Canterbury 2100 | Dirk Flinthart | April | Agog Press |
| Catopolis | Martin H. Greenberg & Janet Deaver-Pack | December | DAW Books |
| Future Americas | Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | June | DAW Books |
| Fellowship Fantastic | Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes | January | DAW Books |
| The Dimension Next Door | Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes | July | DAW Books |
| Something Magic this Way Comes | Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah Hoyt | March | DAW Books |
| Better Off Undead | Martin H. Greenberg & Daniel M. Hoyt | November | DAW Books |
| Mystery Date | Denise Little | February | DAW Books |
| Extraordinary Engines | Nick Gevers | Fall | Solaris |
| Misspelled | Julie E. Czerneda | April | DAW Books |
| Front Lines | Denise Little | May | DAW Books |
| Enchantment Place | Denise Little | August | DAW Books |
| A Book of Wizards | Marvin Kaye | April | SF Book Club |
| 2012 | Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne | April | Twelfth Planet Press |
| Hotter Than Hell | Kim Harrison | June | HarperTorch |
| Love is Hell | Farrin Jacobs | September | Harper Collins USA |
| Warrior Wisewoman | Roby James | June | Norilana Books |
| Polyphony 7 | Deborah Layne & Forrest Aguirre | August | Wheatland Press |
| Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror | Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier | January | Black Coat Press |
| The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2 | George Mann | March | Solaris |
| Wild Cards: Inside Straight | George R.R. Martin | January | Tor |
| Firebirds Soaring | Sharyn November | October | Firebird |
| Desolate Places | Eric T. Reynolds, Adam Nakama | February 2008 | Hadley Rille Books |
| Ruins Metropolis | Eric T. Reynolds | Spring 2008 | Hadley Rille Books |
| Barren Worlds | Eric T. Reynolds, Adam Nakama | Spring 2008 | Hadley Rille Books |
| Global Warming Aftermaths | Eric T. Reynolds | Summer 2008 | Hadley Rille Books |
| Return to Luna | Eric T. Reynolds | Fall 2008 | Hadley Rille Books |
| Paper Cities | Ekaterina Sedia | April | Senses Five Press |
| Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy | William K. Schafer | July | Subterranean Press |
| Ages of Wonder | Rob St. Martin and Julie Czerneda. | late 2008 | DAW Books |
| Eclipse 2 | Jonathan Strahan | October | Night Shade |
| Godlike Machines | Jonathan Strahan | October | SF Book Club |
| The Starry Rift | Jonathan Strahan | April | Viking |
| Transhuman | Mark L. Van Name & T. K. F. Weisskopf | February | Baen |
| Fast Ships, Black Sails | Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer | October | Night Shade |
| Swords and Sorceress XXIII | Elisabeth Waters | November | Norilana Books |
| Celebration | Ian Whates | March | Newcon Press |
| Myth-Understandings | Ian Whates | March | Newcon Press |